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Neneh Cherry

Solo artist Stockholm Sweden

Neneh Cherry is an artist from Stockholm. Neneh Cherry has 31 chart appearances on 30 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 1989–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Trout”, which appears on 22 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Neneh Cherry most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1992.

31appearances

30countdowns

4songs charted

14stations

0#1 finishes

1989–2026years

Neneh Cherry was born in Stockholm in 1964, but she came of age musically in London in the early '80s, knocking around the punk and post-punk scene with the Slits and Rip Rig + Panic. That background shows in everything she did next: she treated pop as a place to throw hip-hop, jazz and attitude into the same pot and see what came out swinging.

Raw Like Sushi, her 1989 debut, went to number 2 in Britain on the back of "Buffalo Stance", a worldwide hit that struts, raps, sings and snaps its gum all at once. That breakthrough brought her 2 Brit Awards and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Homebrew followed in 1992, a looser, moodier record where "Trout" slides along on a heavy, smoky groove that points straight toward trip hop.

She has never worked on anyone else's timetable. Man came in 1996, and later she formed cirKus, recorded The Cherry Thing with the Thing in 2012, and returned with Blank Project in 2014 and The Versions in 2022. Along the way she also picked up an MTV Europe Music Award with Youssou N'Dour.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Neneh Cherry on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Trout	1,340	22	#19	–	1992
2	Buffalo Stance	280	7	#36	–	–
3	Kisses on the Wind	17	1	#759	–	–
4	Woman	15	1	#86	–	1996

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

92 93 96

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2026	291	Buffalo Stance	WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '80s
2024	702	Buffalo Stance	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years
2024	711	Buffalo Stance	The Best Opening Tracks of All Time
2023	305	Buffalo Stance	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s
2021	618	Buffalo Stance	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s
2021	759	Kisses on the Wind	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s
2014	1154	Trout	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	1114	Trout	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011	1067	Trout	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	1032	Trout	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	1125	Trout	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	1181	Trout	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	1326	Trout	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2005	114	Trout	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005	742	Trout	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)
2004	115	Trout	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	115	Trout	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	115	Trout	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	115	Trout	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	117	Trout	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	437	Trout	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	460	Trout	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	116	Trout	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1996	86	Woman	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996
1993	19	Trout	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1993
1992	44	Trout	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992
1992	76	Trout	91X Top 91 Songs of 1992
1992	90	Trout	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992
1992	39	Trout	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992
1990	36	Buffalo Stance	Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1990)
1989	61	Buffalo Stance	Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1989)

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